Article - 12 Dec 2006
The effects of substrate polarisation in a nitrided 316L stainless steel have been investigated in an attempt to correlate processing parameters with surface mechanical properties. Nanoindentation...
Article - 26 Feb 2004
Researchers from the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, have used nanoparticles to reinforce steel and make it 100 times more creep resistant than any other steel. Posted July...
Article - 11 Feb 2004
Researchers at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Information Technologies in Poland are working on the development of trees that don’t produce wood but make plastic, metals, metal alloys and...
Article - 19 Dec 2003
Sandvik Materials Technology has developed a new stainless steel with exceptional properties. Called Sandvik Nanoflex, the new steel allows ultra-high strength to be combined with good formability,...
Article - 18 Feb 2004
Researchers at Rice University have discovered how to create continuous fibers of out of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes. Posted December 9 2004
Article - 20 Oct 2003
Duke University researchers are using strand of DNA to build tiny structures they hope will eventually become microscopic machines capable of building materials and devices molecule by molecule....
News - 30 Mar 2015
Most smartphone users swipe and tap their way from app to app, navigating their mini mobile computing world with ease. Very few think about the technology beneath their screens that conducts heat away...
News - 12 Aug 2010
A growing body of experimental evidence is lending support to the theory that an exotic state of matter called a quantum spin liquid actually exists. In a quantum spin liquid, the way electrons spin...
News - 18 May 2010
Ten-qubit hyper-entangled Schrödinger cat state was successfully generated
recently by a research group from the Quantum Physics and Quantum Information
(QPQI) Division of the Hefei...
News - 16 Feb 2010
Researchers led by Dirk Trauner, a chemist at the University
of Munich, have figured out the mechanism by which molecules with the ability
to block voltage-gated ion channels can be turned on...